The Cricket Thread 2016

[Villan For Life]

The rate has to be higher because you've got 10 wickets which you can be more reckless with but the degree to which the rate increases doesn't fairly reflect the fact that we kept their score down and took regular wickets, closer to 175 I'd be ok with.  The worst thing is the pressure of the rate has got or top order chasing things and giving wickets away.  We're going to lose this series here on the back of 2 very harsh DL targets in games where we had got ourselves into a decent position to go for the win.

That's the most annoying part. Still we should be used to it with our weather.

[paul_e]

I may have been hasty to call this as a defeat, this partnership has been very good if they can accelerate things a little, which they're starting to do here, 16 from the 16th over has made it much closer and back to 8 an over when the required rate was starting to get a bit high.

[Chris Jameson]

Bloody love our Jonny. Chuffed to bits for him and Adil.

What a magnificent series this has been. Next time let's have five Test matches with them please.

[Villan For Life]

Well that was a great performance by Bairstow. He wasn't even in the squad on Thursday and today he's won the game that clinches the series. Fair play fella.

All in all the games against the Kiwis have been great. Hopefully the feel good factor from this one day series will be carried forward into the next test series. Not sure who it's against......

[PaulWinch again]

Fabulous performance. Bairstow was brilliant.

[aj2k77]

England without Cook as cpt are a bit like Villa without Lambert.

[Dave Cooper please]

Great win but the powers that be need to have a tinker with Duckworth / Lewis.
England bowled well and would have been chasing a modest (for this series anyway!) target at less than 6 an over, a bit of rain and suddenly it's a T20 chase, seemed very unfair to me.
That they still managed to win, especially from 40/5 speaks volumes for the attitude that these England players have suddenly found since the World Cup.

Great series, let's play NZ more often please.

[PaulWinch again]

What's important is that we continue this style into the Ashes. I think our best chance is to take the Aussies head on. Let's see how Johnson holds up mentally if he's getting smashed back over his head. Let's see how Starc gets on in red ball cricket when the batsmen get after him.

[adrenachrome]

What's important is that we continue this style into the Ashes. I think our best chance is to take the Aussies head on. Let's see how Johnson holds up mentally if he's getting smashed back over his head. Let's see how Starc gets on in red ball cricket when the batsmen get after him.

A competent, genuinely fast bowler with an attacking field including say four slips and a gully in a test match will seldom be smashed back over his head, and any batsman attempting such is likely to be back in the pavilion in short order.   

[tomd2103]

What's important is that we continue this style into the Ashes. I think our best chance is to take the Aussies head on. Let's see how Johnson holds up mentally if he's getting smashed back over his head. Let's see how Starc gets on in red ball cricket when the batsmen get after him.

I think there might be a case for Hales to open during the Ashes, even though Lyth did well against New Zealand.  If we just try and survive against their attack, there's a chance that we will be bullied out of it.  The ODI series againt them could be very interesting.   

[PaulWinch again]

What's important is that we continue this style into the Ashes. I think our best chance is to take the Aussies head on. Let's see how Johnson holds up mentally if he's getting smashed back over his head. Let's see how Starc gets on in red ball cricket when the batsmen get after him.

A competent, genuinely fast bowler with an attacking field including say four slips and a gully in a test match will seldom be smashed back over his head, and any batsman attempting such is likely to be back in the pavilion in short order.   

I wasn't been literal. But the Aussie lower order did exactly that to Anderson and Broad in Australia. We have to show positive intent or we will definitely lose.

[paul_e]

It's not really about smashing him out of the park, with Johnson in particular you need to punish the wayward balls (they're always there).  Last ashes only really Carberry and KP tried to counter-attack, the rest all went into their shells and tried to last it out, which just encourages him to be more aggressive.  That's why those 2 were the only upper order batsmen with what approached being a reasonable average for the series (Stokes went after him as well and showed up the more senior players).  We can't be frightened by a bit of aggression and let the aussies bully us.  Starting with Hales is probably a good way to counter that if he can reign it in a little in the first 10-15 overs whilst the ball is hard.

[cdbearsfan]

Bangladesh beat India to take unassailable two-nil lead in three-match ODI series. First ever series win against them.

[tomd2103]

Bangladesh beat India to take unassailable two-nil lead in three-match ODI series. First ever series win against them.

Great achievement for them.  Hope they can build on  it.

[UK Redsox]

Cricket at Dodger Stadium, Wrigley Field and The Death Star

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/890195.html

Former Australia legspinner Shane Warne has confirmed that he has booked three of the most famous baseball grounds in the United States of America as venues for a series of exhibition T20 matches that will feature retired international players.

Warne said that Wrigley Field in Chicago, the Yankee Stadium in New York and the Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles had been booked as venues for games likely to be held in November